[ltp] lspnp & setpnp which distros?

[Tony Sequeira]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:57:02 +0100, Michael Hagemann wrote

> 
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:26:49 +0100 Thomas Hood wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:36, Tony Sequeira wrote:
> > > How would this impact a TP600E upgraded to 2.4.23?  Just what are
> the
> > > pnpbios features required?  I'm not at home so cannot check?  I
> cannot
> > > remember why I needed the Alan Cox patched kernel.  Is it for
pcmcia
> > > features?  Do I need to return to 2.4.22-ac4?
> > 
> > Linux 2.4.23 does not have the pnpbios driver and so lspnp and
setpnp
> > will not work with it.
> > 
> > For lspnp and setpnp to work you need the pnpbios driver and this
> > is included only in -ac kernels.  The latest -ac kernel is
2.4.22-ac4
> .
> > I don't know whether or not this kernel includes the fix for the
brk()
> > vulnerability.
> 
> The advantage you get from a pnpbios enabled kernel is, that you can
> change basically all device settings from inside linux, without the
need
> to boot into dos to use ps2.  This might come in handy if you only
> occasionally want to switch on things like the ir port, the serial
> interface etc.
> 
> If all is up and running for you, and you don't see a need to switch
> such settings (which are basically a power saving issues) I wouldn't
> bother and go with the latest release.
> 
> 
> michael

Ah, thank you.  I'm still playing with suspend, I'm assuming/hoping my
problems are due to the kernel version.

-- 
Tony